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What I still donโt understand is why you would design a fridge to be able to store food at over 50Cโฆ
In recent years Iโve seen my local Coop have problems with its fridges regularly malfunctioning. Was this a thing before we decided to operate them remotely?
But yes, this is a warning to citizens their analogue governments have no idea how to keep them safe in this downward spiralling #AI infiltrated world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/17/who-hacked-frances-supermarket-fridges
Whether it was youngsters proving their skills or state sabotage, Europeโs most hacked country was left with a mountain of waste after food began cooking in freezersKim Willsher (The Guardian)
I did wonder whether there was an assumption that you didnโt need to bother selling a commercial freezer in the UK to work above 35C. I generally have a lot of respect for my local East of England Coop - they retain staff for years (some have been there the whole decade Iโve lived around the corner) and there is a guy who has funded his entire politics PhD working there. But I worry about the infrastructure - the staff openly swear about it in front of customers!
I have some commercials myself, and itโs very noticeable that old ones are superior in their working temp range, and also noted as ok for outbuildings.
Newer ones openly say on the label theyโre for indoor nonambient use only, and with a rather pathetic op range (I think they assume their freezers will live in a chilled dedicated room)
Selling tat doesnโt stop them raising prices stupidly, of course.
A purr and a twitch of the whiskers, gold-brown eyes wide with interest.
A shadowy figure slumped above the bed, one with the dimness.
Delicate paws reached up to bat at a lock of long black hair.
The shade reached out a thin gray hand, fingertips stained red. Reaching towards the small distracted cat, which was now trying to groom the hair, strands caught on its tongue.
A pale finger tapped the feline's nose. "Boop," giggled the ghost.
When you're a super cool dragon, you gotta do super cool poses. Them's the rules.
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The cost of insuring against a debt default by Wall Street's tech titans has hit record levels. Soaring debt and rising interest rates have investors fretting about a potential collapse.David Taylor (ABC News)
Day 37,
Maintenance still hasn't gotten my doors unstuck.
But remote work has been OK. Still can't believe my manager approved it. My plants are doing amazing. Guess talking to them really does work.
Waiting for pizza to show up - sooo lucky they deliver thru the kitchen window.
Beyond the glass sky, an elf beamed proudly at her friends, "My pet human is thriving in this modern enclosure! Might even try to find it a potential mate."
the elf deciding she's "thriving" without ever asking her is the knife. stuck door, happy plants, pizza through the window, and the lady behind the glass files the report.
does the human ever get a line, or is the joke that she doesn't?
Cinder ( @V_Mags_Fox ) and Ysengrin (me) at #WPAFW2026 sitting on a stump out back of the lodge.
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Huge news! After 14 years of
Extra Life charity streaming, I have the honor of joining the Seattle Extra Life Advisory Board as their streamer relations lead!
I'll be using my experience to help them shine even brighter to help the kids of the Children's Miracle Network!
We formed an Extra Life team:
https://bsky.app/profile/fursforlife.bsky.social , and for the last 14 years, have braved spicy dares, disastrous food challenges, and most importantly, shared tons of smiles and memories together, while coming together for the Children's Miracle Network.
So far, we've raised over $440,000!
I've learned so much over the years around event planning, organizing, and lots of recruitment efforts. And I'm really excited to start contributing towards
Extra Life directly.
I've been ramping up and getting a lay of the land, and in 2027, I'm gonna help make big waves!
And Furs For Life team and Seattle crew are still running full force, with even more new ways we're evolving the show!
Tune in to:
www.twitch.tv/FFLSeattle for my local crew's Nov 7-8 marathon event!
Shingles vaccine found to reduce the risk of dementia and cardiovascular disease.
Our normalization of the spread of disease also normalizes all these end of life ailments.
My chronic migraines and vertigo started when a common virus got into my brain, eyes, and inner ear.
Don't power through that cold. Don't bring it to work or the grocery store. Normalize hygiene over productivity and shareholder value.
This is my favorite statue that exists.
"Dragons in Love" located in Varna, Bulgaria.
#Dragon #Dragons #DragonPosting #Statue #Bulgaria
s/rogue AI agent/poor IT practices and bad programming/
There, I fixed all your shitty headlines.
"To what do I owe this... blessing?" the witch inquired through an insincere smile, eyes glancing at the bags of gold.
The King unfurled his scroll, letting it unwind all the way to the fireplace. He gestured towards the manically scrawled words.
The witch's raccoon familiar carried it up to his master, who read it carefully.
"Ah, a curse? Sorry, unsealing your lips is beyond my power," he lied.
The kingdom was doing much better lately.
@chuff This witch is male - it's just the type of magic*, not a gender distinction.
Like how wizards and necromancers don't all have to be "he's"
*Similar to how in the Owlhouse universe anyone who can do magic is a witch.
Working on recording tunes, and I don't have control of a string quartet or the ability to play a string instrument with a bow but I do have a hurdy gurdy
So had this idea for a while of using the melody strings on the gurdy to multitrack harmonic accompaniment, gave it a spin on C Bb Ab Bb, one with single string second pass layered with both strings
I think it sounds decent, quite nasal and a few tangents that need adjusting on the higher string but deffo going to use this on a few tracks, smidge of EQ and Plate reverb added for fun
Finally listed my bat fursuit for sale! Wonderful suit by Nicodemus!
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Barely worn bat full suit by Nicodemus, just in time for Halloween!www.thedealersden.com
I found this ridiculously heart-shaped little frame at Ross, and of course I had to buy it! I had absolutely no idea what I was going to paint for it, but I figured something would come to mind eventually.
With BLFC's "At Sea" theme this year, I came up with this silly little idea of a fox falling in love with a bunny while on vacation. Because apparently foxes and bunnies are just meant for each other!
Watercolor painting.
This piece will be available at the BLFC Art Show this week in Reno, Nevada!
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โ#Russian bot traffic has dropped dramatically in the past few days after #Ukraine knocked out #Yandex โs biggest #datacenters, with a third attack happening last night.Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeksโ
โ#Russian bot traffic has dropped dramatically in the past few days after #Ukraine knocked out #Yandex โs biggest #datacenters, with a third attack happening last night.
Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeksโ
This has been bothering me for some time nowโฆ
How can it be that you can walk into a shop and buy a blank notebook for a tennerโฆor a paperback book which an author has written over perhaps many years and eventually got published with all the editing and marketing costs that entails for the same price?
Itโs maddeningโฆ
Is it just me, or do phone connectors (e.g. 3.5mm TRS on headphones) *always* become unreliable? I don't think I've ever had earphones/headphones with such a connector which haven't, at some point, started having a loose connection. My current set of headphones that I have plugged into my laptop practically all the time sometimes sound tinny or far-away and I have to nudge the connector to get them back to full loudness. I don't think I've ever been rough with these connectors, and it's unlikely to be due to excessive plug/unplug cycles as I rarely unplug them โ mainly just when I'm packing up the laptop to travel, which happens maybe a handful of times a year. Is it just that they wear out after a year or two? Or do they have to be treated like Fabergรฉ eggs to remain reliable? Either way I'm seriously thinking USB might be best when I next buy any audio stuff for the computer.
Incidentally I also want to get something to record good audio โ want to try to do audiobook reading and other voice stuff โ so recommendations for something reasonably priced that would record natural sounding voice would be good. Not sure if I want a USB mic with a long lead (so I can move away from the computer's fan noise) or a stand-alone voice recorder I can take into a quiet room.
The alien was relentless, ruthless and too primitive for communication.
The crew hid, defending themselves against the creature each time it found one of them.
Its howls were chilling. Ensigns would freeze in place, needing peers to urge them to run back to the Starship.
Some injuries were critical, but the Captain was relieved they'd all gotten away.
"Earthlings remain a hostile species; we'll try again in another hundred of their years."
A new sketchbook!! And who better to take the very first page than Archer the red panda!
These were mainly color markers, but some touches with color pencils, you can go and watch a video of the process of this on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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The answer is quite simple, actually:
Defrosting. You want to get rid of the ice fast.
Too bad they seem to have a remote defrost option, however..
@wawik
I suspected this was the justification, but has someone balanced the need for defrosting at that speed against how often it will be actually needed and the inherent risk it poses?
You've never wondered why you never see the bank of freezers in a supermarket with frost in them?
They're remotely controlled so that they can be kept frost free by defrosting them overnight,
They heat each freezer up to a +ยฐC for a few minutes, then refreeze it back down to -19ยฐC.
@homeindorset
With the food still in it?
@homeindorset
But growing up, it wasnโt unusual to see frost in the local supermarket freezersโฆpeople still bought frozen food and we survived. This is wasting energy on an absolutely absurd level to just give the impression of a frost free freezer to customers.
Itโs just one example of why energy use has exploded in my life time for totally cosmetic reasons.
@homeindorset
Also thatโs an insane waste of energyโฆapparently the defrosting/refrosting process of supermarket freezers in the UK accounts for 30% of their energy used.
Thatโs energy that could apparently heat 800,000 homes daily.
But if this was the intended message of the hackers (which it may well not have been - just wanted to cause chaos and fear) then itโs truly been lost in the reporting of the event.
We are told to assume this is an international terrorist attack directed by Russia/Iranโฆand maybe it is, but there is also huge domestic intergenerational unrest in France at the moment.
Drawing attention to capitalismโs insane waste of energy to keep freezers appearing frost free at all times (the defrost/refrost process that was hacked apparently uses up 30% of the energy these supermarket freezers use) would also suggest this could be an entirely domestic attack for environmental reasons.
Of course theyโd like to blame Russia, otherwise there will be no insurance to compensate for their incompetence. (1/2)